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  "path": "/t/brave-funded-by-peter-thiels-vc-firm/37722#post_7",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T12:31:16.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This isn’t a situation where some sinister plot is happening behind the scenes. We know better, since Brave is probably one of the most heavily scrutinized and open source monitored browsers available.\n\nThis is more of a “the enemy of my enemy is my frienemy” dynamic. That’s why a group would fund something that completely opposes its own mission statement.\n\nThat specific investor has always been super critical of Google’s business model, and that VC firm saw Brave as a way to pull the attention economy out from under them and other tech giants. Financing any threat to Google, no matter how minor or where it comes from, is a massive potential upside.\n\nI know there’s also a part of this where he was interested in the crypto stuff, but I never really explored that. I just don’t care about the crypto stuff, so I’m not really equipped to talk about that. I don’t know if he was collecting monkey NFT’s or NFT’s of his wifus or what his interest in that portion was.\n\nIt is an ideological mismatch when it comes to data privacy, but venture capital is all about being pragmatic above everything else. They didn’t invest their money because they decided they care about blocking your cookies or saving you from fingerprinting. They found someone creating a new way to attack Google and they wanted in.\n\nThis hasn’t changed Brave’s mission statement at all, and it’s pretty clear it hasn’t had any real world impact on the browser itself. If anyone actually has a compelling argument showing that accepting money from a data surveillance firm has compromised Brave’s privacy first approach, I’ll be the first to peace out. But, I just haven’t seen anything like that when it comes to Brave.",
  "title": "Brave funded by Peter Thiel's VC firm"
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